Haji Muhammad
Mohsin ( Bengali: (1732–1812) was one of the most prolific
philanthropists in the history of Bengal. His most notable
contribution was during the great famine of Bengal during
1769-70.

H Mohsin
was born to Haji Faizullah and Zainab Khanam in Hughli (now in
West Bengal, India) in 1732. He was home-schooled and gained
knowledge in the study of the Quran, Hadith and the Fiqh. Later,
he went on a voyage to other countries of Asia, including the
regions in current-day Iran, Iraq, Turkey and the Arab
peninsula. He also made the pilgrimage to Mecca, and visited
Medina, Kufa, Karbala and other holy places. After performing
the Hajj, he was given the title Haji.

Following his
return, Mohsin took over the management of the estate of his
widowed half-sister, Munnujan. She was the widow of Mirza
Salahuddin, the Naib-faujdar or Deputy Military Governor of
Hughli working for the Nawab of Bengal. She also inherited a
fortune from her mother Zainab, whose first husband Aga Motahar
had a lot of land and properties in Hughli, Jessore, Murshidabad
and Nadia.

After Munnujan's
death in 1803, Mohsin inherited the fortune. However, he decided
to bequeath this fortune for charity, and created a Waq'f or
trust in 1806, with his entire wealth of 156,000 Taka.One-third
of his fortune was to be donated for education and religious
programmes, four-ninths for pensions to the elderly and
disabled, and the remaining two-ninths for the expenses of the
two trustees.

Mohsin died on 29
November 1812. Following his death, the government of Bengal
(then the British East India Company) took over the management
of the trust, and many educational institutions were started
with the grants from the trust. Many students, especially the
poor Muslim students, were given scholarships from the Mohsin
fund.

The Board of
revenue was empowered to manage the said endowment under the
Bengal Charitable Endowments, Public Buildings and Estates
Regulation known as Bengal Regulation XIX of 1810.

By virtue of a
judgment and order of the then Sardar Dewani Adalat in the case
of Wasik Ali Khan Versus Government on 22nd September, 1836
decree the suit in favour of the Government as result whereof
the properties in the said endowment and the management thereof
vested in the state.

From 1863 the
said Hooghly Imambara Estate was governed by the Religious
Endowment Act XX of 1863 and managed by a committee of
management appointed under the R.E. Act and its first president
was Justice Ameer Ali, Chief Justice Privy Council, London.

Since 1863
onwards respective Committee managed the Hoogly Imambara Estate
when owing to dissension an official Receiver was appointed in
or around 1956.

About 1975 a
fresh Committee of Management took charge from the Official
Receiver.

In 1985 owing to
differences between committee members, The District Judge Hoogly
appointed Tajem Ali a Sunni advocate as the Administrator.

The above
appointment of Tajem Ali was disputed before the High Court,
Calcutta which removed Tajem Ali and appointed Shahbir Naqvi a
Shia from Patna as administrator.

In 1988 the
Calcutta High Court appointed Sardar Amjad Ali an advocate and
Nazim Ali Mirza a shia as Joint Administrator.

In 2011 valuable
Chandelier of the Imambara were stolen.

In 2002 the
Calcutta High Court directed the B board of Wakf to appoint a
five member committee of Management, which it did in 2002.

The new committee
of Management did not take charge from the Joint Administrators
but broke open the padlocks and messed up all documents papers,
deeds, valuables jewellery religious relics for their own vested
interest.

The above
committee was the puppet of the Board of Wakf and the state
Government which does not want to reveal and identify the goods
and assets of the Hoogly Imambara, since most of these have and
are being misused mismanaged used by the State Government.

Since around
1930 the Hoogly Imambara Estate has been made to suffer
indefinable losses and its assets are being forfeited because
of proper fight back.

A very larg area
of this estate is in Syedpor Khulna, Jessore etc area of
Bangladesh too.

A substantial
amount of about Rs 2 crores is lying with the Reserve Bank of
India called Education Fund which none wants to reveal.

A substantial
amount of Religious Jewellery and gold is lying with the
Government Treasury without any doubt whatsoever.

PROPERTIES

Aga
Motahar & his wife settled in Bengal during Auranzeb’s regime Aurangzeb
awarded him with the following properties

All
property including Touzi No. 92 comprising of more properties were
given to Aga Motahar’s daughter Mannujan Khanam

This
included the following Mouzas

◦Kidderpur
◦Rajarampur
◦Daulatpur
◦Sonai
◦Benodepur

All
of this devolved upon her uterine brother Haji Mohammad Mohsin
& Haji
Mohsin formed a public and religious endowment

To
be managed by the Board of Revenue under the Bengal Regulation
XIX of 1810

This
property came to be known as the ‘Hooghly Imambarah Estate’

As
per the Religious Endowments Act 1836, this was to be managed by
the Committee of Management appointed on 30 October 1863

Committee
of Management was fully constituted on 1 April 1876

The
Kharij Towleat Property comprising of Kidderpore, Sonai,
Rajarampur & Benodepur of Touzi No. 92, 24 Parganas Distt, were
also to be managed by the Committee U/S 6 & 8 of Act VII of 1863

Haji Mohammed Mohsin on his death in 1813 left vast
properties including Pargana magura Comprising of Mouza Kidderpore,
Sonai, Rajarampur and Benodepur of Touzi No. 92 district 24 Parganas
recorded in the General register, part-1 of the Revenue paying lands
under section 6 & 8 of Act VII of 1863 was included in the said List of
Kharij Twoleat Properties.

Additionally following
are also a part of the Hooghly Imambarah Properties

1.After
a dispute over the ownership of Touzi No. 92 between the
Mutawalli and Ramtonu Saha & Madhusudan Mukhopadhyay, 80 bighas
of (approx. 1,60,000 sq. meters)
was registered in Touzi No. 92 of Mouza Kidderpore at an annual
rent of Rs. 886/-

2.Haji
Mohammad Mohsin had created a fund with Rs. 10 lakh which
swelled to Rs. 1,25,14,300/- in 2003 and is with the Reserve
Bank of India

The district
of Hooghly had been colonized by different civilization from the
pre historic times. However the history of the region was recorded from
the time it existed to be the kingdom of the Suhmas, a valiant tribe who
were the juxtaposition of the Angas, Vangas & Pundras. In Mahabharata,
mention of these tribes has been made. The reference of the Suhmas in
Mahabhasya of the 2nd century B.C clearly designates the existence of
the region in the 2nd century B.C.

In the 3rd century B.C, when Ashoka of
the Maurya dynasty rose into power and augmented his expedition, the
major part of the region came under his sway, leaving almost none in the
control of the Suhmas. The jurisdiction of Ashoka includes the whole
area of Bengal, along the Gangetic plains, which even extends upto
Tamralipta. However the region with the rest of Bengal was conquered by
the successful campaign of Samudragupta and was attached in the
territory of the Gupta Empire in the 4th century B.C

Being a part of the magnificent Guptas
for several centuries, the region suffers a set back and immense loss
when Sasanka, the vigorous king of Gaur expedite against the former
princes and conquered Bengal, covering the region of present Hooghly.
But Sasanka could maintain his kingdom, not for long and in the second
half of the same century, Siladitya Harshavardhana became the domineer
of whole area of Bengal. But the northern and eastern part of the
present Hooghly was under the control of the Sena Kings, powerful in
Bengal at that time.

The region was under the influence of
the indigenous rulers till the 13th century when the Muslim invaded
Bengal and established their supremacy suppressing the native rulers.

The Muslim supremacy was followed by
the gradual uprising of the colonial forces in all over India, including
the vast tract of Bengal. The Portuguese, Dutch and French, Danes and
the English establish "Kuthis" in the district to serve the purpose of
the business. It was the Portuguese, who build up the first port at the
bank of the river Bhagirathi-Hooghly at the middle of the 16th
century. The district progressively transmuted as the "window" for the
foreign settlers. The trading race found the place profitable for
carrying out their business allover the country, hence settled here with
the latent desire to capture the political power. Chandernagore
subdivision was under the French since 1696 to 1950 and the Chinsurah
and Serampore sub division were under the influence of the Dutch and
Danes respectively.

After the Battle of Plassey, when Mir
Kasim, according to an agreement donated the zamindary areas of Burdwan,
Midnapore and Chittagong to the British East India Company, the English
rose into power. Having all the Zamindary areas of Bengal in clutch, it
became somewhat effortless for the British to establish their political
hold. The British, with the aim to install a firm hold, drive away the
other races, formerly controlling Bengal. Consequently the areas around
the Hooghly district, which was once used to be a transaction seat for
the Portuguese and the Dutch, continued to exist within the territory of
the British.

For administrative conveniences the
district of Burdwan was splitted into two parts in 1795.The northern
division being called Burdwan and the southern part came to be
identified as Hooghly. The Bengal Presidency was divided into 14
subdivisions at that time of which Hugli was one. Hooghly became
separate Collectorate in the year 1822 and Mr.W.H Belli was appointed as
the first Collector. However the Collectorate came to be functioned as
the separate district only after the independence.Hooghly-Chinsurah is a
city in the state of
West Bengal,
India. It lies on the
Hooghly River, 35 km north of
Kolkata (Calcutta). It is located in
the district of
Hooghly and is home to the district
headquarters. Chinsurah houses the Commissioner of the Burdwan Range. It
forms a part of the
Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority
(KMDA) region

Hooghly-Chinsurah was a municipality formed by the merging of two towns,
Hooghly and Chinsura, in 1865. The names are spelled in various other
ways including Hooghly, Hugli, Hughli, Chinsura, Chunchura and Chinsurah.

The
Grand Trunk Road passes through the
town. Chuchura and Hooghly are two historic stations on the Howrah-Burdwan
main line of the
Eastern Railway. Ferry services on the
River Hooghly serves as a link with the district of
North 24 Parganas

The town of Hooghly-Chuchura was founded
by the Portuguese in 1579. But, the
district has thousands of years of rich heritage in the form of the
great Bengali kingdom of
Bhurshut. The city flourished as a
trading port and some religious structures were built. One such
structure is a Church dedicated to a Charismatic statue of the
Mother Mary brought by the Portugese. In the 17th century, political
disorder struck the city and the
Mughal governor of
Bengal expelled the Portuguese. The statue was lost in
the river by the Portugese when fleeing. The statue was later found
by the local people on the bank of the river. The arrested
Portuguese were taken to Delhi where a death sentence of trampling
by elephans was decreed. When the emperor Shah Jahan heard this he
ordered the priests released and granted a piece of land on the bank
of the river Hoogly where the statue of the Mother Mary was
reestablished. There a church was constructed to house the statue,
which still receives pilgims today. The church was renovated in
1980s and has been declared as a basilica by the authority of Rome.

n 1656 the
Dutch erected a factory on the site
of the town. At that time Kolkata was the principal Dutch settlement
in Bengal, used as a base for the Dutch intra-Asian opium trade.

In 1759 a British force under Colonel Forde was attacked at the
Battle of Chinsurah by the garrison
of Chinsura on its march to
Chandernagore. In less than half an
hour the Dutch attackers were entirely routed. In 1795, during the
Napoleonic wars, the settlement was
occupied by a British garrison. At the peace of 1814 it was restored
to the Dutch. It was among the cessions in India made by the king of
the Netherlands in 1825 in exchange for the British possessions in
Sumatra.

Committee of management is in charge of the
management and complete control of all the properties whether Wakq properties or
Kharij Tawliyat properties which have been vested with the Hooghly Imambarah.
The committee is within control of the Wakf Haji Mohammed Mohsin and the Tauzi
92 properties vested by The British Government to the committee of management
for financing the shortage in religious functions as per directions of Haji
Mohammed Mohsin in his wakf deed 1806.

In control and overall supervision of day to day
affairs of Hooghly Imambarah collection of rent, maintenance of the properties,
the graveyard - two third of the properties of Haji Mohammed Mohsin was taken by
the British Government under his control for education and secular purposes. The
educational purposes were the School, the College and the Madrasah and other
establishments were made which is still running. And other secular, the
Imambarah Sadar Hospital was built and that is also run by the Government.The
other purposes which was another one third of the religious purpose is only
under the control of the committee of management.

This institution has its own history. One of the
noblest sons of Bengal, Haji Mohammed Mohsin, who has left his golden imprint on
the socio-cultural and economic history of Bengal, executed a deed in 1806 which
later on came to be termed as Towleatnama. He appointed two Mutwallis to run his
Endowment and died in 1812. After his death, the Endowment being thoroughly
mismanaged, the Government of that time took over the entire Endowment under
Regulation-XIX of 1810. Litigation ensued and then highest Court (Sadar Dewani
Adalat) in 1834 upheld the action of the Government vide its judgment report in
6 S.D.A. page 130.

Hooghly Imambarah Hospital

The Imambarah Hospital is maintained almost
wholly from the Mohsin Fund with the help of private subscription from mills on
the other side of the river. This Hospital was established through the exertion
of the Civil Surgeon Dr Thomas Alexander Wise. It was first located in a hired
house in the Chawkbazar, and then in a house in Mogaltuli Lane, formerly
occupied by the Madrasas, and was under the charge of Civil Surgeon. In 1839 Dr
Wise was succeeded by Dr Esdaile and enthusiast for medical mesmerism, through
whose exertion some professional mesmerism were added to the staff. At that time
Bunder Chunder Chowdhury, the first Bengali Surgeon was appointed from the
Mohsin Fund at Imambarah Hospital and he used to get Salary of Rs.100/- and
Rs.30/- for the palanquin from 1853 to 1863. It has also a Mussalman department
for yunani medicine and a dai class from 1872 to 1878, this class started again
in 1902. In 1894, the hospital was removed to its present site in one of the
smaller Barracks. An operation room was added in 1898, and out patient block in
May 1906, at a cost of about 11,000/- by Mohsin Fund, in 1908 new and up to date
operation room was built at cost of Rs.4730/- raised by Public subscription, The
Building mentioned below:-

Name of Building No of Beds

Two Surgical Ward 16

Medical Ward 8

Dysentery Wards 8

Cholera Ward 2

Pauper Wards 6

Total 40

Lt Col. Crowford listed 85 commodities which were
in use as indigenous drugs in the Imambarah Hospital and prepared a classified
list of as many as 240 items of organic and inorganic materials in medicinal use
and available in the Hooghly market.

Lt. Col. Crowford made a list of Civil Surgeon of
Hooghly from 1813 to 1900 ( See Hooghly Medical Gazetteer Page520)

Hooghly Imambarah Unani Medicine Hospital

Like Ayourvedic, the Unani system of medicine
also went by the three fundamental , air Bile, and phlegm (ruh,safe, and bulgum)
and collected its durg from the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdom.
Orgination in Central Asia, its naturally picked up those plants to choose its
medicine from which are common in that region. Basically , thissystem also
depended on outer physical symptoms for the diagnosis. In Arabic ancient Greece
was konwn as Unan and Hippocrates (460-357 B.C) who practiced and taught
medicine in Athens, by early originator of this system, it came to be associates
with thename of his country as the Unani system. Writing about its popularity in
HooghlyDistrict. LT. Col. Crawford remarked in 1903/ The Yunani or Musalaman
system of medicine is now little practiced in this district. There is a large
well equipped yunanidispensary in the Imambarah building at Hooghly under the
charge of a skill parctitioner of the system of LUcknow, which is resorted to by
the Musalaman of Hugli Town (LtCol. Crowford - op cit p 372). It is pertinent to
point out in this connexion that as early as i april 1837, some 61 years id
Crowford published his well known work a letter was published in one of the
journal of time "Samaj" which praised the efforts of Dr. T.A.Wise in staring a
hospital for better Hindus, Muslim out of the Imambarah Trust created by Haji
Mohammad Mohsin and gave a list of the medical practitioner serving there which
was belong.

Hooghly Imambarah Mohsin College

Further is the Hooghly College, a fine doubled
storied building within a large compound which is walled in on three sides and
has the river on the east, the garden contain the plants which have been
culotivated from the time when Dr Watt was professor of Botany here. The
building as several large rooms, is one of which then is a valuable library, and
a broad flight of steps down to the river. The College was established from the
accumulated surplusf the Mohsin Fund, and according to a stone tablet in the
Entrance hall was opened on 1st August 1836. The present building was occupied
in 1837, having been bought with three bighas of land between March & July of
that year. It was built by M.Perron, the French General of Scindia *(The
Calcutta gazette of 10th October 1805contains and advertisement offering for
sale "the house at Chinsurah now nearly finished built by the order of General
Perron, leaving for Europe) who reside at Chandanangore for a year and ahallf
(1803 - 1805) was purchased fr the Jogmohan Seal, who had brought it in
execution of a decree against Babu Pran Kissen Halder. At last Pran Kissen
Halder, the Zamindar came into the presence of that property. babu Pran Kissen
Halder used to give nautches and entertainment, in it, and who in 1828
countributed Rs. 13000/- for the masonary bridge over the Saraswati Bridge at
Tribeni. He was ultimately convicted of forgery and sentenced to transportation
for 14 years. The Seal family of Chinsurah ( now represented by Babu Barajendra
Kumar Seal. a retired District Judge has lent him money on mortgage of the
house, and when it was sold at an auction sale of the Civil Court in 1834 bought
it up. The Seals sold it in 1837 to government for Rs.20,000/-

The endowment left by Haji Mohammad Mohsin
(A.D.1732 - 1812 ) also played an important role in the spread of Education in
the Hooghly District. During his life time he had founded a madrasa which after
his death,was amalgamated with the Imambarah School started and maintain from
the proceeds of the trust properties. Following mismanagement of the trust
properties, Government took over the administration of the fund in 1832 and
established the Hooghly Mohsin College in August 1836. It started with two
Department English and Arabic, the formenr admitted students who had to passed
the Entrance examination and the latter any Muslim for advance studies in
Arabic, Persian and Islamic Theology and Law.Under the first regulation of the
Calcutta University the college was affiliated upto the M.A and Law examination
until 1916 when under the second regulation, allt eh post graduate classes were
discountinued. ( See page 523 of Hooghly gazeteer October 1972).

The Mohammedan have a hostel in a large block
south of the College, while the Hindu students live in a hostel, erected in
1903, on the extreme south of the maiden and in several hired houses near the
courts.

The College ranked next in important to the
Presidency College and among its alumni are men like that the late Mr Justice
Dwarkanath Mitra and Mr Amir Ali. The Finance Committee of 1886 advocated its
abolition, and in 1891, it was decide that, if possible the college should be
handed over to local contract. This steps was not taken, last it was agreed tat
in future the ftaff should consist entirely of men recruited in India. This
decision was carried into effect 1896. In 1899 the memorial signed by large
number of Zamindar, retired Government servents, the High Court Pleader and
formern pupils,was submitted to Government requesting that some at least of the
staff of the college might br member of he Indian Educational services. As
result of this memorial, Sir John Wood burn, the then Lieutenant General order
that arrangement should, if possible, be made by which the services of a member
of the Indian educational services is a European officer with the degree of a
English University should be made available for the post of the Proncipal. The
Administration of the College is entrusted to a governing body with the
Commissioner as the President and the Principal as Secretary. The fees are
Rs.6/- a month, but a Mohammedan pay only half that sum, the balance being met
from the Mohsin Fund.The College has a valuable library of old book. The number
of Student of its rol on 31.03.1909 was 117

Hooghly Imambarah Library

Calcutta, the Hooghly district has been the
cradle of the library movement in West Bengal as some of the earliest library in
the state was started here. Haji Mohammad Mohsin built up a rich collection of
Arabic, Persian, and the other book and manuscripts which are now at National
Library, Calcutta.

From the letter of C.T. Buckland, Commissioner of
Burdwan addressed to the Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Revenue
Department dated 13th March 1875. See page 459 Blue book of Hooghly Imambarah

"Sir, I have the Honour to submit copy of a
letter No 36 dated23th
April, from the Local Agent, Hooghly and a letter in original from
the Mutwalli of the Hooghly Enmambarah addressed to the Government of India with
four copies of the manuscripts catalogue of the books of which the Mutwalli has
made a gift to the Emambarah.

2. I recommend that the offer of the Mutwalli may
be accepted and duly acknowkedge by the Government."

Hooghly Imambarah Madrasa

he Board of Revenue in 1817 founded a Madrasa at
an amount of Rs.6000/- payable out of the Trust fund left by Haji Mohammad
Mohsin, the madrasa at Hooghly become, in course of time , the most important
centre of Islamic learning in the District. From August 1818 it came under
Govenment management, But the leading feature in the first 20 years of the
Government management, was the growth of a considerable securities. On 1821 the
property was settled in patni tenures, that is to say tenures subject to a
government rent fixed in perpetuity, and about 6,00,000 ( Six Lac ) of rupees
were received on this account. As however the suit questioning the validity of
this title was then pending in the Privy Council, it was made a condition that
of that suit were lost, and the new owner fefused to confirm the patni, the
purchase money should be included with interest. To meet this possible change
the proceed of the patni sale were invested in Government Security, and the
interest being added as it amount to the original principal, a capital sum of
about ten lac were accomulated.

In 1897 it had 166 students and government
expenditure in it was Rs.2375/-. Writing in 1951, about the Sate Education in
West Bengal for the period of 1942-1947, Snemoi Datta nad subodh Chandra
Sengupta wrote " Madresa education was imparted through different channels.
There was the reformed schemes in which the Junior Madrasa stage from Class v to
Class vI was controlled by the Department of Education and the Higher Madrasa
stages from class vII to class x was controlled by the Board of Intermediate and
Secondary Education, Dacca. At the end of this a student might join an
intermediate College under the Calcutta University, but he would more naturally
go the an Islamic Intermediate College of which West Bengal had only one.The
Government Intermediate College at Chinsurah, Hooghly which had a lean existence
with only 33 pupils as against 36 in 1942. The total expenditure here was
19,405/- of which Rs.18732/- came from provisional revenues.

History of Trustee Estate

In the beginning of 18th Century emperor
Aurangzeb went to the Deccan for invading Ahmednagar when his Omrah Agha Motaher
was awarded a Jagir in respect of Santganpargana. Aurangzeb died in 1707. In
order to manage this Jagir Agha Motaher came with his wife to Hooghly and
settled there. Santganpargana at that time consisted mostly of low and marshy
land. Thus from the time the entire low land of Kidderpore was under the
management of Hooghly Zamindary instead of 24-Parganas Authority.

Agha Motaher died leaving behind him his (1)
widow and only (2) daughter Mannujan Khatoon. Agha Motaher made a will in favour
of his daughter only and gave all his properties to her before his death. This
agreeved the widow who then married Hazi Faizullah. Out of this wed-lock Hazi
Mohammad Mohsin the great, was born in 1732.

Munnujan Khanum married one Mirza Alauddin
Mohammad. After the marriage her Zamindari became known as Mirza-al Zamindary.
Now speaking of Kidderpore it is found that the Zamindary in Kidderpore
comprised of Taluk No.92 in which the properties amongst others are (1) (Munshigunge
Area) (2) (Muchikhola Area) now known as Garden Reach (3) (Kapidanga Area) now
known as King George Dock. (4) (Alip Nagar Area) now known as Taratala. (5) (Daulatpure)
that is from bridge No.(1) of Dock No.(1), Dumayu Avenue and Sonai (6)
Sonaibazar to Coalberth of C.P.C. (7) Soingarhati - Fatepure Area (8) Kalibagan.
Bhukailash Area and lastly No. (9) Ramchandrapure renamed as Mominpore.

When Munnujan Khanum became a widow she made a
gift of all properties belonging to her brother Haji Mohammad Mohasin who
remained unmarried throughout his life. He made the entire property a Wakf and
died in 1812. Subsequently due to mis-management by Mutawallis the entire
property was transferred to the Board of Revenue for management.

Thereafter, the Government remained in undisputed
possession of the properties of the Endowment till 1863 when the Religious
Endowment Act (Act-XX of 1863) came into force. The Government’s Order no. 4036
of 30th October, 1863 directed, “a committee must be appointed to take the place
and exercise the powers of the Board of Revenue and of the Local Agents and when
appointed, will perform all the duties of the Board and the Agents except in
respect of property especially provided for under Section 21 of the Act.” The
income of the Endowment was divided into 9 shares.

Committee of Management, The Hooghly Imambarah
was thereafter appointed once for all and then by its order no. 219 dated 26th
January, 1876 the Government directed the Board of Revenue not to transfer to
this committee the charge of Syedpore Estate but only to make over to it that
portion of the proceeds of the Endowment of late Haji Mohammed Mohsin which was
appropriated to religious uses. Thus a fund or call it a Local Fund was created
as noted hereunder:-

1/9th Share for Salary of Mutwalli.

3/9th Share for Committee of Management, for
religious purposes.

4/9th Share for Secular purposes.

1/9th Share for Education.

Details of 4/9th Share :-

1. Unani Charitable dispensary at Hooghly
Imambarah.

2. Imambarah Sadar Hospital at Chinsurah,
Hooghly.

3. Local Agent’s Office.

4. Imambarah Establishment for staff.

In addition to the aforesaid fund, the Government
by its order vested Kharij Touleut estates in the religious manager of the
Imambarah as a trust for the purposes of the Institution but directed the same
to be placed under the control of the Imambarah Committee and further directed
that their accounts should be kept separate from those of the original Endowment
or Waqf.

Committee of Management is in charge of the
overall management and is in control of all the properties whether Wakf
properties or Kharij Tawliyat properties which were vested with the Committee of
Management of Hooghly Imambarah. The committee is in control of the Wakf
properties of Haji Mohammed Mohsin and Tauzi 92 properties which were vested by
the British Government to the Committee of Management to overcome shortage of
funds for religious functions.